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UK’s Guardian: London Bridge jihadi was reacting to racism, Muslims are the real victims of his massacre

Dec 2, 2019 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Elsewhere, court documents reveal that racism may have also played a role in radicalising Khan. They cite how Khan and others discussed bombing pubs in Stoke as a response to ‘racist incidents.'”

Of course court documents “reveal” this. What they do not “reveal,” however, is why this is so. In Sunni Islamic law, defensive jihad is obligatory on every Muslim if a Muslim land is attacked. Offensive jihad can only be called by the caliph. So in the absence of a caliph, the jihad activity has to be defensive. Accordingly, it has to be ascribed to a response to some provocation by the kuffar. Then witless kuffar leaders think, “Oh, if only we stopped doing this, then the jihad would cease.” And so they embark on becoming Sharia-compliant dhimmis.

“On Saturday, as the night drew in over Stoke, local taxi driver Mirza Mahmood bemoaned the lack of prospects, and bigotry facing the city’s young British Pakistani community, particularly young men. He also knew Khan’s murderous actions would invoke fresh prejudice. He said: ‘Let me tell you, there is always more abuse, and we drivers get attacked much more every time there is an incident like this. Our children suffer, everyone suffers. The racism is much worse than it was a decade ago. It’s tense. Everyone is tense.’”

Of course. After every jihad attack, the establishment media tells us that Muslims are the real victims. And of course the British media continues its witless depiction of all opposition to jihad terror as “racism.” All this illustrates why we’re in the fix we’re in.

“‘We don’t understand how Usman Khan ended up like this,'” by Mark Townsend and Nosheen Iqbal, Guardian, November 30, 2019:

Outside a small white and green mosque in Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent, at Zuhr prayers on Saturday lunchtime dozens of men and women in padded jackets, heavy coats and kurtas gathered in the car park, unable to squeeze into the single-storey building for the funeral taking place inside.

“One of our community elders has passed. It’s a massive death,” explained a softly-spoken man in his 20s who didn’t want to give his name. He grew up with Usman Khan, whose family live in a terraced cul-de-sac around the corner. A day earlier Khan had brought terror to central London, embarking on a knife rampage, killing Cambridge University postgraduate Jack Merritt, and an unnamed woman, and injuring three others.

As the sky darkened, the congregation in Cobridge became increasingly subdued as locals struggled to digest the news that a man who once was a neighbour had wrought such barbarism in the capital.

“We grew up on the same streets, we know every one of his brothers and sisters, his mum and dad,” said one. Another said: “We don’t understand how [Khan] ended up like this. How can you have a person who went to prison for extremism and terror, and then he’s let out and he’s got a tag on and ends up back in London to do this? How? Why?”

More than 150 miles south, in the headquarters of MI5 on the banks of the Thames, investigators are asking the same questions: how did Khan, a 28-year-old convicted terrorist who had been participating in an event showcasing the rehabilitation of inmates, manage to perpetrate such an act while out on licence? And why?…

Elsewhere, court documents reveal that racism may have also played a role in radicalising Khan. They cite how Khan and others discussed bombing pubs in Stoke as a response to “racist incidents”.

On Saturday, as the night drew in over Stoke, local taxi driver Mirza Mahmood bemoaned the lack of prospects, and bigotry facing the city’s young British Pakistani community, particularly young men. He also knew Khan’s murderous actions would invoke fresh prejudice.

He said: “Let me tell you, there is always more abuse, and we drivers get attacked much more every time there is an incident like this.

“Our children suffer, everyone suffers. The racism is much worse than it was a decade ago. It’s tense. Everyone is tense.”

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  1. No Muzzies Here says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 12:09 pm

    The left is quick to justify anything that its best friends do, even if that is killing innocent individuals. Its obvious that the Guardian knows who the UK’s new overlords are.

    The next time this happens, the Guardian should be brought to justice for promoting it.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 2, 2019 at 1:42 pm

      If they had not come to England, would they still be ‘victims’ somewhere else? Or are they just PERENNIAL victims?

      (Islamic Victimology 101 … if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, are the Dirty Kufaar still to blame? And also … if in doubt, call ‘racist’ .)

      • Fred Middleton says

        Dec 2, 2019 at 2:29 pm

        Yes, especially the Jews. If it snows its the Rothschilds, if you become a useless parasite its because Israel, Trump, whites…

      • Lilith Wept says

        Dec 2, 2019 at 8:09 pm

        This is part of Islam’s tactics to take over our countries….they come here and they gain the sympathy of the liberal leftists by promoting themselves as perpetual victims…it’s always something that moslems are “ victimized ” about ..( poverty, lack of inclusion, not getting some religious based demand fulfilled…) .and it’s all due to Islam , it’s doctrine, it’s laws and the way moslems observe these laws and obey the doctrine that cause the issue in the first place and is moslems own fault.
        Islam does not belong in Western countries. Period. And when you force Islam onto a Western culture, then there are problems. Our politicians are too cowardly to admit that the origin of the problems caused by moslems is the ideology of Islam.

        It’s all moslems fault they are hated so much…. I refuse to say that moslems are victims of anything, ( other than victims of their own belief in the Islamic ideology, and thats more or less voluntary. They could leave Islam , at least In the West and if enough people rejected Islam is Islamic countries, they could throw off the yoke of Islam there too)

        This victim hood is all manufactured by moslems . They import their beliefs…and the Islamic law , that criticizing Islam is criminal, punished by death and that any kuffar thatresists islam, that refuses to convert or struggles against conversion, an Islamic take over deserves to die, and then they come here to Western countries where sharia is nktvthe law and by being “ offended” and victims, they try and force US to obey their laws , Sharia
        ,And all the problems wirh moslems is caused by forcing people who follow the Islamic ideology onto Western countries, western culture .

        So moslems will ALWAYS use the propaganda that they are victims so liberal leftists will continue to be blind to the things that moslems and liberals disagree about , and only concentrate on the Lie that moslems are “ poor persecuted victims “ …and continue to be their allies, support moslems their efforts to Islamify and then take over our countries.

        Moslems realize that if they don’t have the support of the liberals they ,would face reality…the reality of people recognizing what a violent and dangerous ideology Islam is.

        Moslems know they haven’t infiltrated our political system enough to have the kind of power that the liberals have…..but in the US we are seeing droves of moslems running for political,office, more than ever before.

        So its just a matter of time before the moslems have enough political,power to not need the liberal leftists. There will be a falling out between the moslems and liberals at some point…….I think anyway ….because islam totalitarian theocracy and the liberal support of gays and women are totally opposite agendas. At some point these will come into conflict.

        But moslems will continue to play the victim card. It’s just one of the many tactics that Moslem are using in their efforts to take over the West.

        • C R HADLEY says

          Dec 3, 2019 at 5:29 am

          The Left wing Guardian will just laugh at what you have said! The arse wipe paper’s reporters are so far to the”left” they have become “right wing” Fascists! Islam is still Medieval in thought, word and deed! Other so called religions have moderated in most parts of the world, with the exception of Catholics, who are still in the 19th C where “freedoms” are concerned, but at least have stopped the “Inquisitions”! Northern Ireland still has violent sectarianism in it’s midst! Muslims are their own worst enemy, they follow, to the letter, Sharia Law, a brutal and sexist set of rules which give men ABSOLUTE control of women and girls! The Guardian ia supposed to champion women’s rights? Yes? No it pays lip service only to that and condems it’s self by openly supporting Islamic rules!!

  2. elee says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 12:10 pm

    Maybe if you paid them more welfare/jizya and quit resisting the scripture that says they can take your women and girls at any time for any purpose, they wouldnt have to punish you so often. Yeah that it, lets be good little dhimmis and see if that improves their disposition.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 3, 2019 at 9:30 pm

      Grimly spot on, elee.

  3. CogitoErgoSum says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    All I can hear, I me mine
    I me mine, I me mine
    Even those tears, I me mine
    I me mine, I me mine
    No-one’s frightened of playing it
    Everyone’s saying it
    Flowing more freely than wine
    All through the day I me mine

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Dec 2, 2019 at 2:01 pm

      That’s one of my favorite George Harrison songs. Great, passionate vocals & some cool guitar.

      Not sure how it fits here though, below an article about the ultra-PC rag, The Guardian — unless the “I, Me, Mine” referred to is the self-blame so blindly & insistently embraced by ignorant, self-loathing, Muzzie-loving liberals who’ve drunk the toxic Kool-Aid served up by fools like the “journalists” at The Guardian, and by the twisted ideologues programming children & young adults at public schools & universities.

      The social justice warriors at The Guardian (and other “news” sources of that ilk) are deeply ashamed of being Western & white. Every article they write regarding Muslims or Islam is atonement for the unforgivable sin of being born to white, middle-class (or wealthy) parents in one of those “imperialistic” Western nations that cause all of the ills of the world, without contributing anything noble or beautiful or worthwhile to mankind. I sometimes wish those idiots would atone for that sin with a bit more sincerity, by throwing themselves in front of a train, or jumping off a cliff. Far better than leading the entire Western world off a cliff.

    • James Lincoln says

      Dec 2, 2019 at 3:04 pm

      C.E.S.,

      Yes, “I me mine”.

      Muslims, and their leftist supporters, are excessively narcissistic – and can never accept responsibility for their behavior…

  4. Keith says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 12:44 pm

    Always someone else to blame,the person to blame was himself a brainwashed terrorist who had already planed once before mass murder of others that’s why he was in prison in the first place so stop the blame game and tell the truth instead of bs.

  5. Niemoller says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 12:59 pm

    In contemporary Islamic jargon, a non-muslim is a racist.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Dec 2, 2019 at 2:38 pm

      — Unless they’re actively & passionately kissing Muslim ass, and demonizing anyone who isn’t.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 3, 2019 at 9:35 pm

        And even then they might be “racist”…

  6. Lydia Church says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 1:03 pm

    Oh sure, all of London did not convert to islam, therefore… “racism!”
    So it wasn’t really poor little Khan’s fault, you see.
    He was perfectly ‘justified’ in his terror attacks, lashing out from rejection.
    So the terror attacks occur, and people are aghast and taken aback in outrage as they complain about and rail against the terrorist attacks. But this, you see, is simply interpreted as more “racism,” since any counter terrorism surely must be “racist” and “islamophobic” in nature.
    So the vicious cycle continues and terrorists thus have more ‘justification’ and ‘ammunition’ to commit more terrorist attacks. And the cycle continues because good English gents don’t see that muslims are always the true ‘victims,’ regardless of the facts. So they should merely sit back in silence so as not to be accused of “racism.” And then this will roll out the red carpet for muslims to take over even more, unhindered, and the plan all along. Thus either way it is a lose-lose strategy whether the good English chaps fight back or not. The solution? Rail against evil, no matter what they will call you for it!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 3, 2019 at 11:00 pm

      Yes–anything sort of mass conversion to Islam is grounds for violent Jihad.

  7. somehistory says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 1:27 pm

    This is the mind of the psychopath. A psychopath always blames others…never taking responsibility for any negative action or consequences. The psychopath will gladly take credit for good results and positive consequences…even if he/she had nothing to do with it. But, if a decision turns out badly, then someone else is at fault.
    This is not only psychopathic, it is group-think. All of these moslims…crying foul, poor meism,..are engaging in group-think as well as psychopathy. They are not blaming the perp…not blaming islam or its teachings…only blaming those who might now be reacting to the murders and attempted murders by a moslim who should not have been allowed on the streets.

    As Lord Pearson asked in video posted on another thread yesterday, “Are we not allowed to talk about it?”

    The moslims say “No,” because to talk about it, is to blame the perps and by extension, those who support him, the book that instructed him, the “preyers” that encouraged him, the barracks full of people who think as he thought, and some will do as he has done, and the evil they all believe as the source of his psychopathy.

    If a White person is bullied…and it happens… and then that White person goes on a shooting spree…think Columbine…would there be an outpouring of sympathy for all White people? If someone condemned the shooting and said it was the result of “White Supremacy” thinking, would all White people then clamor for sympathy and blame “racism” for what the perps did?

    moslims are taught to think in terms of “it’s never our fault…even when it is our fault…because moslims can’t be at fault…because moslims always do what is according to their book that tells them what is right.” If other people don’t like what moslims do…that is the fault of the person not liking it and the fault of others who agree that the moslim did something bad or evil, immoral or illegal.

    When the moslim psychopath or group of moslim psychopaths, point an accusing finger, or many fingers, at the innocent victims, or at those responding in disgust at the murders, or even at people who are just asking questions and wondering “why,” the moslims are pointing four fingers back at themselves.

    But their minds are those of psychopaths and will never understand that islam is the root of this jihad murder syndrome.

  8. Westman says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 2:26 pm

    “..local taxi driver Mirza Mahmood bemoaned the lack of prospects, and bigotry facing the city’s young British Pakistani community, particularly young men.”

    The labor-based economy is over. Today’s economy is based on technology, use of cheap energy, and expoitation of offshore cheap labor. Robots and cheap offshore labor have replaced local labor wherever possible. Self-driving cars are even coming for the taxi driver’s job.

    It will never be another Pakistan. Get over it and get qualified for today’s opportunities in being mentally British, not Pakistani. You have free healthcare, the dole, and likely, reduced education costs. You can’t stand about at a lumber company looking for work as a laborer and expect opportunity. That’s Islamic inshallah thinking and it is failure thinking.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 3, 2019 at 11:03 pm

      True, Westman. Of course. most Muslims don’t want to work in the first place.

  9. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 3:08 pm

    An Arabic/Mohammadan proverb that describes the tactic:
    “Tamaskan tatamakan” (“Show a victim’s face [and] take over” or “Show a victim’s face [and] you will win”).

  10. Allan Ong says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 4:20 pm

    Just take a lesson from China… There’s no victimhood excuse to shove the troublemakers into re-education that rips apart Islamism…

  11. toomanyhobbies says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    Um the CULT of islam is made up of every race on the planet so how can it be racism?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 3, 2019 at 9:55 pm

      +1

  12. gravenimage says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    UK’s Guardian: London Bridge jihadi was reacting to racism, Muslims are the real victims of his massacre
    ………………………

    What crap–Muslims wage violent Jihad against *all* Infidels, even ones who are ethnically identical to them. Just look at the situations in places like Pakistan and Nigeria.

    More:

    “On Saturday, as the night drew in over Stoke, local taxi driver Mirza Mahmood bemoaned the lack of prospects, and bigotry facing the city’s young British Pakistani community, particularly young men.
    ………………………

    Were this true, why are so many Muslims continuing to flood into Britain and the rest of the West?

    More:

    He also knew Khan’s murderous actions would invoke fresh prejudice. He said: ‘Let me tell you, there is always more abuse, and we drivers get attacked much more every time there is an incident like this. Our children suffer, everyone suffers. The racism is much worse than it was a decade ago. It’s tense. Everyone is tense.’”
    ………………………

    Uh huh…Muslims murder Infidels; Muslims “real” victims…

    More:

    “‘We don’t understand how Usman Khan ended up like this”…
    ………………………

    What nonsense–Khan has been linked to Jihad terror attacks since at least 2008, when he was just 17. He was under police surveillance when he made his recent Jihad terror attack. There was *nothing* surprising about this.

    More:

    Outside a small white and green mosque in Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent, at Zuhr prayers on Saturday lunchtime dozens of men and women in padded jackets, heavy coats and kurtas gathered in the car park, unable to squeeze into the single-storey building for the funeral taking place inside.

    “One of our community elders has passed. It’s a massive death”
    ………………………

    Why is a Jihadist terrorist being killed to prevent his murdering more people a “massive death”? Because he was not allowed to murder more Infidels…

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